Tales of the Texas Rangers: Shaft of Death (EP3830)
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
Adam Graham
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Original Air Date: September 30, 1951
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:28.0 | Welcome to The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio. From Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam Graham. |
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| 1:13.0 | Well now let's get into this week's episode of Tales of the Texas Rangers, and the series was renewed for a second season, and it started in September. |
| 1:24.0 | And would continue for about a year, but with no summer break this time. |
| 1:31.0 | Would continue as a sustaining feature, as NBC tried to remain competitive in the writings, and also to compete with CBS. |
| 1:41.0 | While with that said, let's go ahead and get into today's episode, Original Airdite September 30th, 1951, and the title is Death Shaft. |
| 1:52.0 | From Hollywood, another authentic reenactment of a case transcribed from the files of the Texas Rangers. |
| 2:04.0 | Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McRae as Ranger Chase Pearson, Texas walled in 260,000 square miles, at 50 men who make up the most famous and oldest law enforcement body in North America. |
| 2:34.0 | Now from the files of the Texas Rangers come these stories based on facts. |
| 2:46.0 | Names, dates, and places are fictitious for obvious reasons. The events themselves are a matter of record. |
| 2:58.0 | Case for tonight, Death Shaft. |
| 3:01.0 | It is 9.30 a.m. November 18th, 1941, in the Big Ben country of West Texas. |
| 3:13.0 | J.C. Wilford of the Bureau of Mines and Fred Blaisdell are winding up a narrow dirt road toward Blaisdell's abandoned mine in Black Hawk Canyon. |
| 3:22.0 | How long do you say it spins since you operated your mine Mr. Blaisdell? |
| 3:27.0 | I never have operated Wilford. It was left by my brother when he passed on. |
| 3:33.0 | I was understood there was all here if you had the money to get it out but I didn't. |
| 3:38.0 | So I just let her sit here, haven't even been near the place for two years anyway. |
| 3:44.0 | But lately I've been reading that the government seems to get some of these mines going again. |
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